Black Monday Approaches

[Hoepssa]

21 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

Mayo's out, but no replacement mentioned so far.  

He cost Pats the 1st overall pick after a win. Pats needs that pick to shop more picks, Mayo knew he's gone so led the team went for it. Jets did that twice recently, won a meaningless game late in a season, and resulted to draft Solomon Thomas instead of Myles Garrett, and Zach Wilson instead of Trevor Lawrence.

[BrightonCorgi]

8 hours ago, Hoepssa said:

He cost Pats the 1st overall pick after a win. Pats needs that pick to shop more picks, Mayo knew he's gone so led the team went for it. Jets did that twice recently, won a meaningless game late in a season, and resulted to draft Solomon Thomas instead of Myles Garrett, and Zach Wilson instead of Trevor Lawrence.

Why not just forfeit the game instead? Less risk of injury. I am not a fan of losing on purpose.

It's not fair to the players to tank a game on purpose. They may have performance metrics in their salary. If they want to lose a game on purpose, I can be their quarterback for heck lot less money.

[Ken Gargett]

6 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

Why not just forfeit the game instead? Less risk of injury. I am not a fan of losing on purpose.

It's not fair to the players to tank a game on purpose. They may have performance metrics in their salary. If they want to lose a game on purpose, I can be their quarterback for heck lot less money.

agree. hate teams deliberately losing and if any evidence, they should lose all picks for the year. 

but coaches and management may want to tank. rarely do the players, i believe. no one likes losing. it reflects on them for future contracts and as you say, performance metrics, plus you really want to play badly and have the team get a higher pick who may eventually replace you?

but forfeiting? no. i would assume that the contracts with the NFL would make that prohibitively expensive. think of the lost revenue to both the NFL and the team (and of course, TV). i suspect a deliberate forfeit (might be different if the plane went down on the way to the game or some legit reason) would incur massive penalties. 

[BrightonCorgi]

4 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

but forfeiting? no. i would assume that the contracts with the NFL would make that prohibitively expensive.

Sand bagging is just forfeiting & go with the motions. I meant in jest. As you mentioned, players careers are about metrics. Flopping doesn't help that in any sense.

[Ken Gargett]

4 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

Sand bagging is just forfeiting & go with the motions. I meant in jest. As you mentioned, players careers are about metrics. Flopping doesn't help that in any sense.

i know what you mean but can you imagine the BFL response if a side said we are not bothering to turn up. we want pick 1. i'd pay to watch. 

the other thing is that if i am a coach, at any level, unless i have a cast iron guarantee i am back next year, buggered if i would allow the team to lose. i am not tanking so the next coach looks good.